Bug 107843 - EDITING: No cropping options in Writer if the image is pasted from Impress
Summary: EDITING: No cropping options in Writer if the image is pasted from Impress
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.0.0.alpha1+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 112655 158949 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: Writer-Images Impress-Images Image-Crop
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Reported: 2017-05-14 10:27 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2024-01-18 18:08 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
Example file (30.46 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2017-05-14 10:27 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2017-05-14 10:27:17 UTC
Description:
No cropping options in Writer if the image is pasted from Impress

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached presentation file
2. Copy the image 
3. Open a new Writer document and paste the image
4. It's not possible to crop the image

Actual Results:  
It's not possible to edit the image

Expected Results:
Editing should be possible


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 970b431f1a7b6b96c4c9536657ce4fe9d8f5b585
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.2; UI render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2017-05-11_23:07:53
Locale: en-US (nl_NL); Calc: single


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Comment 1 Telesto 2017-05-14 10:27:51 UTC
Created attachment 133308 [details]
Example file
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-05-14 12:27:27 UTC
By default it pastes it as Impress 8. If you paste special - bitmap, you can crop. Not sure, if we are supposed to be able to crop these Impress 8 things?

Can Regina answer this question?

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: c0968aa4673a8ac9a8a09a0e291b58b94bdbb35e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.10; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
Built on May 13th 2016
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2017-05-14 15:49:06 UTC
"Impress 8" produces an OLE. There crop is not needed, because it is done by the frame.

"Drawing Format" produces a shape. In Draw/Impress the command .uno:GrafAttrCrop contains the cropping. This command is not available in Writer. Therefore not the original image is inserted, but an image that only has the part, that remains after cropping. --> Feature request: Implement .uno:GrafAttrCrop for those shapes, that would be able to be cropped in Draw/Impress and then insert the shape in original size and crop it.

"GDI" contains an image wrapped into a vector format.
"Bitmap" contains an image directly.
Both "GDI" and "Bitmap" contain only the part, that remains after cropping. That has always been this way, so I would say it is more a feature request than a bug. I think, that the current behavior can be improved. The images can be inserted in original size and the same cropping as in Draw/Impress can then be applied automatically. For such images cropping is available in Writer as part of .uni:GraphicDialog. I don't know, whether the clipboard already contains the needed information.

Cropping is part of the style of family "Graphic" in file format. LibreOffice distinguishes between images as shapes and Writer-images, but nevertheless uses the same kind of style in file format, only naming one "gr" and the other "fr". Currently this distinction is necessary, because the capabilities of "Draw-Images" and "Writer-Images" are different.

The aim should be, to get rid of "Writer-Images". This issue belongs to this aim, regardless of naming it "bug" or "feature request".

This bug contains two problems, perhaps split it?

I cannot find a (Meta-)bug for removing Writer-images, but likely my search was bad. There should be one, because free rotation of images belongs to the same aim.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2017-05-14 15:55:56 UTC
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3)
> I cannot find a (Meta-)bug for removing Writer-images, but likely my search
> was bad. There should be one, because free rotation of images belongs to the
> same aim.

With the help of https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Tracking_Bugs I only found bug 103152
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2017-10-01 21:57:38 UTC
*** Bug 112655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2017-10-01 21:59:07 UTC
According to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112655#c1,
height and width can be changed in 6.0.

Could you please try to reproduce it with a master build from http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/ ?
You can install it alongside the standard version.
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the master build
Comment 7 Regina Henschel 2017-10-28 17:23:22 UTC
The cropping dialog is still not available for a image as Draw/Impress shape in Writer.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2019-03-25 03:44:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Ole Tange 2019-12-04 16:29:45 UTC
Reproducible in:

Version: 6.3.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: a64200df03143b798afd1ec74a12ab50359878ed
CPU tråde: 8; Styresystem: Windows 10.0; Gengiver af brugergrænseflade: GL; VCL: win; 
Lokalisering: da-DK (da_DK); Sprog for brugergrænseflade: da-DK
Calc: threaded
Comment 10 Telesto 2021-07-06 09:44:05 UTC
@Bayram
This came to (my) mind while reading you're blog post [...] Images are converted a drawing objects and have the same attributes like shapes. *But in Writer, images have different attributes and handling.*

(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3)
> The aim should be, to get rid of "Writer-Images". This issue belongs to this
> aim, regardless of naming it "bug" or "feature request".
> 
> This bug contains two problems, perhaps split it?
> 
> I cannot find a (Meta-)bug for removing Writer-images, but likely my search
> was bad. There should be one, because free rotation of images belongs to the
> same aim.

So not sure what the scope should be fixing the 'grouping'. Maybe it should be limited to Impress/Calc/Draw? Because Writer should have the same image handling as Impress/Calc/Draw at some point.. 

Only pointing out, having no clue what the proper strategy is here. More dev channel/mentor topic.
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2023-07-07 03:16:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Buovjaga 2024-01-18 18:08:17 UTC
*** Bug 158949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***